Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-01-21
VERMONT BEEkEEPERS.
ANNUAL MEETING OF THE STATE
ASSOCIATION.
Over 100 Representative Beekeepers in
Attendance Interesting and Profit
able Papers and Discussions Inter
esting Programme for o-day.

city Thursday afternoon, the meeting be-
ing held in the smaller dining room at the
Van Ness House. There was an unusually
large attendance for Il meeting of this ma
ture, about 100 representative beekeepers
from oil parts of the State being present
AS to. attendance the convention com
New York State convention which
closed at Albany Wednesday. The
officers of the Vermont association
are as follows: President, p. c.
Abbey. of Essex presidents, ID 5.
Hall of South Cabot and j. f.. Crane of
Mlddlebuly; secretary, h. II. Holmes of
Shoreham treasurer, j. +. Crane of Mid
dlebury.
The convention opened at 1870 D. M,
with preliminary remarks of the presi-
dent, who reviewed the history of the
organization. 1t first began its career as
county association in Addison county
1t was subsequently, enlarged to the
Champlain Valley Bee Keepers associa
tion and at the last annual meeting NJ
Middlehury it was or anized as "A State
association.
j. II. Larabee of Larabee's Point read
an interesting essay on I'm Embryo"
dealing with the starting in business of
young beekeepers. He spoke of the qua
lities of persons fitted for beekeeping, its
attractions and detractions, the proper
method of beginning and the best way of
Offering honey for sale. He then compared
beekeepng with other pursuits, not to the
detractlon of the former, and dwelt on the
attractions of beekeepng in its scientific
perfection.
A. E. Nahum, one of the best
known and most experienced bee
keepers in the State, then adj
dressed the convention on the brood cham.
Der from April to August /. His method
of proceeding with weak swarms in April
was to notice what swarms were queen
less and ascertain the needs of each colony.
When the weather became sufficiently
warm he adopted careful method of
spreading brood until the time came when
young bees could not reach maturity in
time 10 collect Eastwood honey. He aimed
to provide young bees for colonies to win
ter. 1t required experience to tell when a
colony was queenless, there being a pecu-
liar iutler or hum to a queenleSs colony,
This was followed by a discussion as to
winteriug bees, the amount Of honey con
sumed and method of putting into win
ter quarters which was pated in by
Mr.. j. S. Crane of Middebury, II. l..
Leonard of Brandon, eX-presdent of the
association and others.
Cellar Versus Outdoor Wintering"
was the subject of a discussion, led by Dr.
+. Bond of Cornwall who favored cellar
wintering, although he thought it best to
be governed by circumstances. His apiary
was located in windy place so that he
used a cellar. 1t was well to economic
heat to save honey. He put his colonies
III lut Ctlldl JUST lUt STOuUu ITOIt
and took them out about the 10th of A pril
or when the weather was warm enough so
the bees could soon be at work. He did
not pay much attention to ventilation
f. NJ Wright of Enosburgh found it
necessary to ventilate and recommended
upward ventilation from the floor. He
did not put out bees until about the last
of April. He placed quilt over the
frames aud raised the hive off from the
bottom board
he frr I
Messrs Leonard, Nahum and Crane, the
weight of opinion being in favor of win
tering in the cellar. Mr. Crane gave his
views on the condition of the temperature
as governing the amount of moisture held
by the atmosphere. A cubic foot of air at
10 would hold in suspense about one-titth
of grain of water and a rise in temper
ature will largely increase the amount of
moisture that will be held.
The convention then adjourned till
evening.
EVENING SESSION.
e At the opening OF the evening session
the president announced the following
committees
On Nominations--A. f. Nahum of Bris-
toll, II. ID. Davis of Bradford and George
Beecher of Essex.
On Awards-B T. Greene of st Albans.
d. S. Hall of South Cabot and H. l.. Leon
ard of Brandon.
"Shall We Feed Sugar or Honey When
Hives are Deficient in Winter; Stores"
was discussed by Messrs. Crane, Bond,
Leonard. Davis and others, the weight of
opinion favorng honey as the best and
cheapest.
Miss NJ. A. Douglas of Shoreham read
an essay on "How shall we market our
honey" She admitted that she was I'M
decided whether it was better to sell in
dIxTist t1.lI Luz ar h 1fTh ptnt
was strongly in favor, however, of plac.
ing first class article on The market in
preference to adapting the quality of the
supply TO the demand.
A discussion arose as to the means of
preventing he adulteratlon of honey and
the ACCESSIBILITY of distinguishing Yer
mont honey from other. Mr.. Davis
thought Il patent package could be used 20
advantage by putting up in it nothing but
first class honey and so establishing a
reputation for Vermont honey.
Mr.. Crane was willing to let the people
buy what they wanted and said that at
the lbany meeting middle man ad-
dressed the association in favor of buck
wheat honey, while in Boston nothing
but white honey could be sold.
A discussion on the question SIS it de
sirable for Vermont Beekeepers to adopt
Heddon's methods of manipulation ?" was
led by A. l.. Nahum. VINO had nine
of two sections with eight frames to the
section. 1t is commended that by taking
out he under section bees breed faster
He had not tested it 50 that he could
recommend it, neither could he speak
against it.
Mr. Hall said that he had tried the
HeddOn method of preventing "A second
swarming and found 1t successful every
time He had not tried the hive suffi-
GENTLY, however, to enable Kim to speak
as to its value.
Mr. Leonard had tried a similar method
of preventing second swarming and
found that it worked successfully. Mr.
Crane had not found it successful, but it
was shown that he had IA wrong idea of
the method. Mr., Nahum thought that
less honey was obtained by that method
and that Nermonters could not afford TO
adopt 1t.
Mr. Leonard then led the discussion on
"W hat is the best method of re queening
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